Grace Sembajwe

Associate Professor and Epidemiologist Hofstra University, Feinstein Institute for Medical Research at Northwell Health

ScD, Epidemiology
University of Massachusetts, Lowell

MSc, Industrial Hygiene
University of Central Missouri

BA, Natural Science
Goshen College

Dr. Sembajwe, ScD, MSc, CIH is an epidemiologist and industrial hygienist. She has been working in clinical sciences and exposure assessment for the past 24 years. Her research interests include investigating the multi-factorial contributors to early mortality in occupational cohorts by integrating qualitative and quantitative information about the environment, physiological burden, and exposure modeling with multilevel analysis.

Dr. Sembajwe brings extensive practical experience in Occupational and Environmental epidemiology having worked with varied occupational cohorts including retail workers, bus drivers, hospital staff, meat packers and Gas and Electricity workers. Prior to joining CUNY, Dr. Sembajwe was a Postdoctoral Research fellow at the Harvard University Dana Farber Cancer Institute and served as an Industrial Hygiene Consultant at Burns & McDonnell Engineering in Kansas City, Missouri. She is currently an associate professor and epidemiologist in the Department of Occupational Medicine, Epidemiology, and Prevention (OMEP), Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra University, Feinstein Institute for Medical Research at Northwell Health.

Dr. Sembajwe’s implementation science expertise focuses on workplace interventions that integrate health protection and health promotion. Dr. Sembajwe focuses specifically on interventions that target an integrated approach to reducing workplace psychosocial stressors as they interact with known physical (musculoskeletal) and chemical hazards. More recently, Dr. Sembajwe has several current projects aimed at improving total worker health and designing interventions that address factors in work and family conflict.

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